State ratifying conventions are one of the two methods established by Article V of the United States Constitution for ratifying proposed constitutional...

The Virginia Ratifying Convention (also historically referred to as the "Virginia Federal Convention") was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia...

by other state ratifying conventions. September 13 • Congress of the Confederation certifies that the new constitution has been duly ratified and sets...

short, there were no statements in the Constitutional Convention or the state ratifying conventions asserting that the states would have the power to nullify...

being the only amendment to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions. The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, after years of...

out of 50) must then ratify the amendment either by a vote of approval in each state's legislature or by state ratifying conventions. Congress may specify...

state legislatures or state ratifying conventions, then the proposed amendment remains pending business before the state legislatures (or ratifying conventions)...

three-quarters of the states or state ratifying conventions in three-quarters of the states. The vote in each state (to either ratify or reject a proposed amendment)...

(b) consent of state ratifying conventions. The ratification method is chosen by Congress for each amendment. State ratifying conventions were used only...

sovereign state. They are: The Geneva Conventions First Geneva Convention Second Geneva Convention Third Geneva Convention Fourth Geneva Convention Additional...

some common interest. The most common conventions are based upon industry, profession, and fandom. Trade conventions typically focus on a particular industry...

requiring that the amendment be submitted to state ratifying conventions for ratification, rather than to the state legislatures, and by prohibiting any person...

had ratified the amendment by 1973. After 1973, the number of ratifying states slowed to a trickle. Support in the states that had not ratified fell...

Congressional salaries as they debated whether to ratify the Constitution. North Carolina's ratifying convention proposed several amendments to the Constitution...

seven of the thirteen state ratifying conventions, and was mentioned by almost two dozen delegates. In each of these conventions, delegates asserted that...

three-fourths of the states; or State ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states. The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far...

the Constitution. The convention would have been limited to those changes discussed at the various State ratifying Conventions. At least four other amendments...

may, when ratifying the Convention, ratify subject to reservations or interpretations. Besides other obligations, ratification of the Convention would require...

document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and was ratified through a series of state conventions held in 1787 and 1788. Since 1789, the Constitution...

people in their district. This concern was evident in the various state ratifying conventions, where several specifically requested an amendment to secure...

one, the delegates voted to submit the Constitution to state ratifying conventions. The Convention adjourned from July 26 to August 6 to await the report...

must then be ratified by either—as determined by Congress—the legislatures of three-quarters of the states or by ratifying conventions conducted in three-quarters...

it ... by assembling in convention .... [It] d[id] not, on ... account [of the ratifying conventions assembling in each state], cease to be the [action]...

during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United...

Island was the last state to ratify the Constitution under Article VII, doing so on May 29, 1790. The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall...

Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. If a state has ratified, acceded, or succeeded to one of the treaties, the year of the original ratification is indicated...

for ratification. In November, Pennsylvania's legislature convened the first of the conventions. Before it could vote, Delaware became the first state to...

Convention No 182. It is one of eight ILO fundamental conventions. By ratifying this Convention No. 182, a country commits itself to taking immediate...

Southern states than would have been the case in state ratifying conventions, given that state conventions were being conducted at that time throughout the...

These included the Debates, a three-volume overview of the state ratifying conventions of the Constitution, used as a reference text until the late...